Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison.

ABSTRACT: Nature provides a myriad of intangible and non-material services to people. However, urbanites are increasingly disconnected from the natural world. The consequences of this progressive disconnection from nature remain difficult to measure as this process is slow and long-term monitoring or large-scale manipulation on nature experiences are scarce. Measures to contain the spread of the recent COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., lockdowns) have potentially reduced or even suppressed nature experiences in cities. This situation provided an opportunity for conducting a longitudinal study that can serve as a sort of natural experiment to quantify the effects of nature deprivation on individuals' health, well-being and relationship to nature. We collected data on these variables from the same individuals

SUBMITTER: Colleony A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8924002 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature